Chapter 201: Murder with a knife

When Xiao Fan came out after burning the paper, he found that he had taken off his shoes and curled up on the chair with one foot, rubbing his feet with a look of enjoyment, and his expression was very **.

And Cao Yi stared at him with a strange expression, his expression was very complicated, his lips squirmed a few times, and he finally held back what he wanted to say.

Xiao Fan was frightened by his strange appearance, the two looked at each other for a long time, Xiao Fan couldn't help but ask, "Brother Cao, what's wrong with you?" Why do you look at me as if you were looking at a dead man? It's obscure......"

Cao Yi quickly turned his head to look at Taixu, and hurriedly smiled: "It's nothing...... Just now, the pro-army of the Yan Wangfu came to spread the word, the Tartar Koubian, the soldiers have arrived in Kaiping, the Yan King beat the drum and gathered the generals, and specially asked you to go to the palace to discuss the matter of fighting the Tartars. ”

Xiao Fan paused for a moment: "Tartar Koubian, it is necessary to discuss the resistance, but ...... I am a messenger of the imperial court, and I just came to Beiping to reward the army on the orders of the emperor. ”

Cao Yi thought about it, but he didn't understand what it was, so he had to smile and say: "Xu is King Yan sees that you represent the Son of Heaven, and the military affairs of Beiping call you no matter how big or small, to show that he is open in his heart." ”

Xiao Fan also smiled with relief: "Since King Yan wants to be frank, then I will give him a chance to be frank, go to a meeting and listen to how they fight, and then I will go to ...... when I change into my official uniform."

Cao Yi's expression became strange again, he glanced at the old god in a complicated way, and hesitated: "If you want to go, go quickly, hurry up, don't delay......"

"What do you mean?"

"If you don't hurry up and hurry over, the people of the palace are estimated to come to Qincha and run to mourn......"

Xiao Fan was taken aback: "Whose funeral is it?" Who died? ”

"You."

Bang bang bang!

The official sedan chair of the Qin Cha went out, and the guard of honor slammed the gong all the way, and rushed towards the Yanwang Mansion in a hurry.

"On behalf of the heavens patrol hunting", "ordered to patrol the north" and other more than a dozen deacon cards along the center of the street on both sides of the slipped unfolded, mighty swaggering through the city, the whip was thrown loudly, the people in Beiping City were all panicked to avoid.

"The messenger has arrived, and the idlers have retreatedβ€”" the messenger shouted all the way with his neck pulled at his neck.

Xiao Fan sat in the swaying and bumpy sedan chair, his handsome face turned a sauce purple, like a piece of seven-ripe pork liver.

"The old immortal, do everything to block me, if you are not there, you will not be there, but you said that I went below, Zhu Di must jump up with joy, maybe now he has sent a fast horse to send a letter to Jingshi, I burned a paper to provoke whom?"

Outside the official sedan chair, the messenger was still shouting that the messenger was coming, and the idler retreated, Xiao Fan thought about it and felt that it was not right, so he opened the curtain of the sedan window and called the messenger to the sedan chair.

"It's not right for you to shout like this, it's right that the Qin Cha is driven, and who knows if the Qin Cha who has arrived is dead or alive? I don't know, I think I'm going to be funeral......"

The messenger wiped his sweat: "My lord, how should my subordinates shout?" ”

"I don't care what you shout, anyway, I want the officials and people in Beiping to know that I'm not dead!"

The messenger understood: "The subordinates understand. ”

So, in the noisy Beiping market, the messenger rang the gong violently and ran towards the front of the team.

"Get out of the way! Get out of the way! Chincha is alive! The living Chin sent out to patrol ......"

Xiao Fan sat in the sedan chair, his face becoming more and more purple: "............"

The honor guard carried the live Qincha, so anxious as if grabbing the title, rushed all the way to the Yanwang Mansion to ......*************************************************** the Yanwang Mansion.

The generals of the Yan Army who gathered in the front hall had already arrived, and everyone was talking about each other, with a little excitement and a desire to try.

Hearing the news that Xiao Fan had gone "below", Zhu Di did not say anything, but the Daoyan monk sitting next to him took the case, and said in surprise: "Xiao Fan is dead?" ”

The pro-soldier who reported the news hesitated: "Yes." ”

"Has the news been confirmed?"

"This ...... It was his Taoist priest father who said it, and it should be ...... It can't be fake, right? ”

Dao Yan was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly looked up to the sky and smiled, and said happily: "This fang died violently, it is really a ...... of heaven."

Before he finished speaking, Xiao Fan's handsome face with a smile appeared in the front hall of the palace.

Dao Yan's face suddenly turned dark purple, as if he had been choked by the neck, and he stared at Xiao Fan with a white and hellish expression.

"Master Daoyan, your emotion hasn't been finished yet, don't pay attention to me, you continue to sigh, what is it?" Xiao Fan's smile is very kind, which makes people feel like a spring breeze.

Dao Yan's expression changed several times, and his expression immediately changed from surprise to surprise, and then from surprise to sadness.

"It's ...... God bless the good! Dao Yan shouted sadly, tears in his eyes swirling.

This time, Xiao Fan froze, stayed for a long time, and finally gave him a thumbs up, and said sincerely: "Amazing!" Absolute powerhouse! ”

In the hazy eyes of tears, Dao Yan pretended to be surprised again, and inexplicably stepped forward to hold Xiao Fan's hand tightly, and said loudly: "Ah! Lord Xiao, have you come back to life? God has eyes......"

"Gao is not happy? Surprised? ”

"Rejoice! Surprise! ”

"I'm actually a corpse......" Xiao Fan said with his tongue out and rolling his eyes.

Syllable!

Dao Yan hurriedly stepped back and fell on the body of a certain general behind him, and suddenly overturned a large area, and the front hall was in chaos.

Zhu Di said with a gloomy face: "Lord Xiao, can we get down to business?" ”

When the front hall was quiet again, Xiao Fan shirked left and right, and was arranged to sit on Zhu Di's left side, while the generals of Beiping sat in two rows, and everyone stared at Zhu Di in unison.

Zhu Di stood up, looked around the generals coldly, and said calmly: "I believe you already know, five days ago, the Northern Yuan Tartars invaded my Ming territory, their troops entered the fast, and they captured the Yumuchuan outside the pass within a day, and now the soldiers have arrived at Kaiping Mansion, if Kaiping is broken, they will inevitably continue to go south, or attack Shanhaiguan, or attack the Yanqing Pass of the Great Wall, if they are allowed to break through the Shanhaiguan Pass or Yanqing, the pass is a horse Pingchuan, Beiping Mansion is in danger, you are all battle-hardened generals of a hundred battles, the Mongolian cavalry crossed the Great Wall, entered the pass, I think you all know what the consequences will be, right? ”

The generals looked awe-inspiring and nodded one after another.

Zhu Di looked at the generals coldly again, and said in a calm tone: "The first emperor ordered the king to guard Beiping more than ten years ago, in order to guard my Ming territory, so as not to lose an inch, and now the Tartars are going south, invading my Ming Dynasty, slaughtering the people, and capturing the city. ”

Zhu Di slapped the table in front of him fiercely, and roared: "This king has been on the border for more than ten years, and I have always beaten others, how can I ever be beaten to the door of the house?" It's a great shame! Who will wash it for the king? ”

The generals were furious, and at the same time they stood up and clenched their fists, shouting: "The last general is invited to fight!" ”

Zhu Di stared at his blood-red eyes, a fierce murderous intent poured out, his tone was as cold as ice, and he gritted his teeth and said word by word: "This king wants you to leave all these 50,000 dog tartars outside the pass!" Remember, there is not one left! ”

"Yes!"

All the generals drank together, and the front hall became murderous with the roaring sound of armor and iron leaves, and the faces of the generals of Beiping were covered with a strong color of anger, and they stared at each other, like angry beasts that could not tolerate swimming in the cage, eager to come out of the cage and bite off the enemy's neck.

Xiao Fan watched coldly, calm on the surface, but his heart was deeply shocked by the sky-high fighting intent of the generals of Beiping.

From the generals to know the soldiers, the generals of Beiping are so brave and fierce, the sergeants of the Yan army must not be far behind, they are now fighting Tartars, if one day Zhu Di waved the flag in his hand and ordered them to go south to attack the imperial court, if they are also so passionate and high-pitched now, how can the imperial army resist?

Xiao Fan knew in his heart that although the imperial army accounted for a large number, but he had lived in the peaceful and prosperous era for a long time, he had already bred twilight, and his lazy and slackness had spread in the army, and what was even more terrifying was that Zhu Yuanzhang wantonly slaughtered heroes and famous generals during his lifetime, resulting in no general available in the court.

Xiao Fan felt a deep worry in his heart, but he didn't dare to show it on his face, he still had a smile on his face, as if it was none of his business, and quietly watched the generals of Beiping impassionedly ask Zhu Di for battle.

After Zhu Di waited for the generals to be in high spirits and full of fighting spirit, he slowed down his tone and said coldly: "The generals are quiet!" Now this king has issued a military order, and the generals have the heart to kill the enemy and serve the country, so this king's military order is given, no one is allowed to push the military order, there is no joke in the army, and those who violate the order will be beheaded! ”

All the generals clasped their fists in unison and said: "The last general swears to death!" ”

Zhu Di glanced at Xiao Fan intentionally or unintentionally, and the look in his eyes was quite cold.

It seems that the battle arrangement has been arranged for a long time, Zhu Di said without hesitation: "Zhang Yu listens to the order!" ”

Zhang Yu, who was covered in clothes, stood in the hall, clenched his fists and shouted: "The end will be!" ”

"Order you to lead the western suburbs battalion with 40,000 elite soldiers, and each soldier will carry three dry rations, and hurry to Shanhaiguan to meet the enemy outside the pass!"

"The last general obeys!"

"Zhu Neng listens to orders!"

A middle-aged man who was stout and burly, slightly fat, stood up, clenched his fists and shouted: "The last general!" ”

"Order you to lead the remaining 30,000 elite soldiers of the western suburbs battalion to rush to Yanqing Pass, if the Tartars divert to Yanqing, be sure to intercept them outside the Great Wall, let a Tartar enter the pass, this king will behead you!"

"The last general obeys!"

"Meng Shan listens to orders!"

"The last general!"

"After you lead three thousand baggage and escort the grain and grass to follow Zhang Yu's army, you must rush to Shanhaiguan within three days, and you are not allowed to let the sons and daughters under the command of this king go hungry! If there is any slackness, cut it! ”

"The last general obeys!"

"Qiu Fu listens to the ......"

β€œβ€¦β€¦β€¦β€¦β€

…………………… One after another military orders were issued, and the generals of Beiping received their respective tasks, their expressions were excited, and they all showed smiles, but the smiles were hideous and terrifying, as cruel as if death was about to harvest human lives.

Xiao Fan was silent, quietly observing the expressions of the generals, and Zhu Di's orders one by one, carefully tasting Zhu Di's fighting style in his heart, he found that Zhu Di's combat was very direct, all of them were facing the enemy, without too many tricks and detours, and when commanding, the tricks were wide open and closed, calm and atmospheric, quite like Zhu Yuanzhang's style of contempt when he was in the world.

A general who doesn't know how to use tactics and only knows how to fight hard is naturally not a good general, but Zhu Di dares to give orders like this, most of them are also fully confident in the combat power of the soldiers under his command, he believes that his soldiers will not be worse than the Mongols, so he dares to fight tough battles, and self-confidence is often based on strength.

Xiao Fan is now a little more jealous of Yan Jun.

This is a division of a hundred battles, if you want to defeat Zhu Di with the little combat power of the imperial court, the process will be very difficult.

Whoever fights, with the right fit, with the odd victory, when Zhu Di rebels in the future, if he doesn't have some small tricks, it is estimated that he will not be able to clean him up...... "Lord Qincha Xiao Fan listens to the order!" ”

A cold voice came from my ears.

Xiao Fan was dumbfounded: "............"

"Where is Xiao Fan? Listen to orders! ”

"Huh? Yes...... What's the matter with me? Xiao Fan suddenly had an ominous premonition in his heart.

Zhu Di turned his head to stare at him, and said in a slow tone: "Lord Xiao, when the first emperor was alive, he repeatedly drove to conquer the Northern Yuan Dynasty and killed countless enemies, you patrolled the northern frontier on behalf of the new monarch, and now the war in the northern Xinjiang has begun, and the soldiers are about to go to the outside of the gate to sacrifice their lives and forget to die. We have been martyred for the country, and we have died a well-deserved death, Lord Chincha, what should you do at this moment? ”

Zhu Di's words were cold and cold, and in a few words, the image of a minister who was greedy for life and afraid of death, who only knew how to be powerful and blessed, but did everything possible to shirk when he was about to fight, jumped in front of the hall.

The generals of Beiping all showed unkind expressions, and stared at Xiao Fan with their hands on the hilt of the knife on their waists, as if as long as Xiao Fan dared to say half a word, they could slash him to death in this front hall.

The cold sweat on Xiao Fan's forehead flowed down drop by drop, and he couldn't help trembling slightly, and his face became pale.

He now finally understands why Zhu Di sent him, an irrelevant minister, to the palace to discuss matters.

Conspiracy! Absolute conspiracy!

Zhu Di wanted to take this opportunity to get rid of his enemies and let himself die on the battlefield in a dignified manner, even if the news of his death in battle was transmitted back to Beijing, Zhu Yunwen and the Manchu Dynasty civil and military could only think that he was unlucky, sacrificed his life for the country, and died a heroic and great death, but he had nothing to do with Zhu Di, maybe he had to pinch his nose and praise Zhu Di a few words, and in the end, he was at most posthumously named "unlucky man" or "unlucky marquis" by the grief-stricken Zhu Yunwen, and the scenery was buried in the soil, while Thrush and Jiang Du were young but had to be widowed...... It's so vicious!

At the same time, Xiao Fan also figured out why Zhu Di would send Zhang Yu to take the initiative to go deep into the grassland and provoke the Mongolian tribes, and co-authored to prepare for today's day.

It's good to take advantage of the situation to force people!

Xiao Fan really feels as if he has been forced into a desperate situation now, if he really responds to Zhu Di's military order, then he must be where he is in danger, it is definitely a lifeless danger, if he does not have Zhu Di's military order now, maybe he will reprimand Qin Cha for being greedy for life and afraid of death, and delaying the emergency military situation, I am afraid that he will be killed on the spot, and then send a letter to Jingshi in a fake manner, crying that he is really a last resort, Xiao Fan did not dare to lead the troops in front of everyone, pushing and avoiding Zhan Yunyun, anyway, he was already dead at that time, What kind of water and dirty water is poured on himself, it is impossible for him to jump out of the coffin and refute him...... Xiao Fan's eyes were pitiful and looked around at the unkind Beiping generals in the hall, and said weakly: "But I'm ...... I'm a civil servant......"

"You are not only a civil official, but also a representative of the Son of Heaven and a member of the imperial court! At the time of the national war, the puppet still knew how to kill the enemy and serve the country, why couldn't the civil officials? At this time, my Ming frontier is in an emergency, all the generals are in the ministry, and the generals under the command of this king are all dispatched, and there are no available generals, so I ask you to work once, can't you? ”

Zhu Di's tone gradually became gloomy and murderous, and his eyes stared at Xiao Fan, as if he had seen through Xiao Fan's heart.

The eyes of the generals in the hall all looked at Xiao Fan, Xiao Fan's face twitched a few times, and he unknowingly fell into the trap designed by Zhu Di, causing himself to fall into a desperate situation, and this military order could not be refused at all, if he refused, it just gave Zhu Di an excuse to disobey before the battle, and he could kill himself in public now.

Xiao Fan felt a pang of despair.

He never thought that one day he would go to the battlefield, dripping blood, Sensen's white bones, and countless tragic and terrifying corpses lingered in front of his eyes, Xiao Fan felt a chill all over his body. He was just a mortal, he was afraid of death, no matter how impassioned he said it, but when war really came, how could he not be afraid?

"Lord Wang...... This is a war! Xiao Fan said with a sad face.

Zhu Di nodded with a cold face: "Of course this king knows that it is a war. ”

β€œβ€¦β€¦ Dead people! ”

"Nonsense! This king dares to die, and the soldiers under this king's command dare to die, why can't you die? ”

Xiao Fan closed his mouth in despair: "............"

After being silent for a long time, Xiao Fan finally stomped his foot resolutely, gritted his teeth and said fiercely: "Okay!" I'm back on the battlefield! In order to protect my Ming territory, go into battle and kill the enemy! Prince, please give an order! ”

Zhu Di laughed: "Okay! Xiao Dawen is a weak person, it is rare to understand righteousness, and he is a man! This king admires! ”

With a solemn expression, Zhu Di shouted violently: "Xiao Fan listens to orders!" ”

"The last general...... The lower official is here! ”

"This King Commands You to ......"

Before he finished speaking, Xiao Fan suddenly screamed in pain and screamed, "Lord Wang...... I'm so weak, so weak......"

Bang!

Xiao Fan was stunned by everyone, and fell down in a high-spirited and heroic posture, and then fell unconscious...... Zhu Di half opened his mouth, staring at Xiao Fan who was motionless under his feet incredulously, with a stomach full of commands, but he couldn't say a word.

This man...... How shameless is it to do such a thing!

"Xiao Fan, this is a military tent, it's not a child's play, have you had enough?" Zhu Di is full of black lines.

Xiao Fan closed his eyes and did not move: "............"

"Xiao Fan, you are avoiding the battle! This king can kill you! Zhu Di's tone gradually became gloomy.

Xiao Fan: "............"

Zhu Neng, who was watching below, couldn't help it, stepped forward and pulled out his dagger, and said with a cruel smile: "Lord Wang, the last general will stab him in the thigh and see if he wakes up!" ”

Xiao Fan still didn't move, and the cold sweat of Douda ran down his forehead to his sideburns: "............"

(To be continued)